Article: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain.(Book review)

Article: Circumcision
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society;      700+ words ...Circumcision Male circumcision is evidently both the oldest and the most widespread surgical...Philosophical Dictionary famously asserted that the Israelites had adopted circumcision from the Egyptians ("who revered the instrument of generation...

Article: Circumcision education. (Letters to the Editor).
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  July 1, 2002 ;     613 words ......explains a lot in a small space about the circumcision issue. It can help both doctors and...MD, MPH, President, Doctors Opposing Circumcision 45 Robbins Road Nordland, Washington...www.DoctorsOpposingCircumcision.org Circumcision Quiz Take this quiz, and find out whether...

Article: Male circumcision gains ground as anti-AIDS weapon
AP Online;  May 24, 2008 ;     359 words ......you safer. He is talking about the circumcision he is about to undergo at the urging...come to believe the science that says circumcision can prevent men from being infected...helping to roll out Kenya's first free circumcision project, which offers operations at...

Article: Male circumcision gains as Kenya anti-AIDS weapon
AP Online;  May 24, 2008 ;     359 words ......you safer. He is talking about the circumcision he is about to undergo at the urging...come to believe the science that says circumcision can prevent men from being infected...helping to roll out Kenya's first free circumcision project, which offers operations at...

Article: Male circumcision as anti-AIDS weapon
AP Worldstream;  May 23, 2008 ;     359 words ......you safer. He is talking about the circumcision he is about to undergo at the urging...come to believe the science that says circumcision can prevent men from being infected...helping to roll out Kenya's first free circumcision project, which offers operations at...

Article: The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography. (Review Essay).
Journal of Social History;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......routine procedure on newborn males, circumcision in both a medical and cultural/religious...history, international efforts to ban the circumcision of women (female genital mutilation...protests against the survival of routine circumcision of male infants in the United States...

Article: What is sexual harassment? Charges and countercharges. (Editorial)
The Christian Century;  April 13, 1994 ;     700+ words ...CIRCUMCISION WAS much on Paul's mind when he wrote his letter to the Romans. Indeed, considerable theological...church before it was decided that gentile males did not have to undergo the Jewish rite of circumcision before becoming Christians. For Paul, circumcision was more than a physical fact; it was ...

Article: From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America.
Journal of Social History;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......generation to generation. J. Henry C. Simes, Circumcision (1890), p. 375 The operation of circumcision is one which may be performed for moral...prophylactic importance. J. Henry C. Simes, Circumcision (1890), p. 383(1) Since the early years...

Article: Saying "No" to Circumcision.(Review)
Special Delivery;  September 22, 1999 ;     373 words ...Saying No to Circumcision, 1994, 18 min. Both available from Nurses...NM, who refused to assist in routine circumcision of infants on ethical grounds. In the first video, Saying No to Circumcision, six of the nurses who took part in...

Article: Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America.(Book review)
The Historian;  June 22, 2007 ;     525 words ...Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America...over the routine nonreligious circumcision of newborn males in the United...conclusively, the routine, nonreligious circumcision of males in the United States...

Article: circumcision
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ...circumcision or posthetomy , is the operative removal of all or...removal of the clitoris and parts of the labia ). Male circumcision has been read in the West to be a sign of everything...the group which continued to practise infant male circumcision in Western Europe after the advent of Christianity...

Article: Re-examining Circumcision.(BookCorners)(Book Review)
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Doctors Re-examine Circumcision by Thomas J. Ritter, MD and George...0-0, c. 2002, $11.95 Although circumcision rates in the United States are...still widely practiced. In 1996, circumcision rates varied from a high of 81...

Article: New Guidelines for Circumcision.
HealthFacts;  March 1, 1999 ;     234 words ...A new policy on circumcision was published in the current issue...American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Circumcision is not essential to a childs well-bei...AAP to recommend routine newborn circumcision. Instead, we encourage parents...

Article: Circumcision Discussed in Custody Battle
AP Online;  November 7, 2007 ;     411 words ......custody of the boy, argues that the circumcision is a decision best left to the custodial...The judge ordered him not to have the circumcision done until the appeals were exhausted...regain custody of the boy, that the circumcision could physically and psychologically...